Goldwater blasts New Right
Even before Barry Goldwater became his party's nominee for President in 1964, conservatives revered and respected the Senator from Arizona as the titular head of the Republican right. So it came as a rude shock to many of the faithful when Goldwater last week lashed out at the religious zealots of the New Right, most notably represented by the Moral Majority.
At an informal breakfast with reporters last week, Goldwater, 72, was asked for his views on the rise of the New Right. "I don't like what they're doing," he...
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